2.4.2 issue still (ctlinnd and "message too long")

[Chris Caputo]

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Russ Allbery wrote:
> All of them handled 8KB packet sizes without any trouble except for Tru64
> and FreeBSD, which can't handle a byte over 2KB.  So I'm afraid that INN
> is running into (stupidly low) OS-imposed limits that there's no way
> around without major surgery in how ctlinnd talks to innd, and doing the
> latter isn't something on my list to work on.

Out of curiosity, why would ctlinnd messages ever need to be longer than 
2k?

Chris